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Bloggers Under Pressure in Malaysia and Hong Kong

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Chris Vallance | 00:25 UK time, Monday, 16 July 2007

nat_small07.jpglinks to two stories of bloggers feeling the heavy hand of the law, one from and another from .

There's more on the case of Nat Tan the Malaysian blogger detained . Their summary also points to a blog by his sister which is well worth looking at as a statement of the personal impact of his detention and the .

The other case, of blogger prosecuted in Hong Kong for posting an allegedly obscene image she found on Flickr to a blog (the picture in question is pretty anodyne), is gone into in some in a wide ranging post that asks important questions about censorship and the difficulty of applying "decency" standards across national boundaries.

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